The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) partners with states to share best practices and provide technical assistance to improve the quality of care for our beneficiaries. Type in a key search term to see what resources are available, or use the filters below to search and browse our quality improvement resources by Medicaid and CHIP Core Set domain and other fields.
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Medicaid & CHIP Beneficiaries at a Glance: Oral Health, 2023
Data and Statistics, Fact Sheet or TA Briefs -
This resource provides an overview of Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries' oral health status, access, utilization, expenditures, as well as dental provider participation and dental-related opioid prescriptions. Some data elements are stratified by state. The resource includes a child and adolescent and an adult profile.
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Opioids, Dental and Oral Health Services
Resources for Improving Tobacco Cessation
Fact Sheet or TA Briefs, Quality Measure Guidance, State experiences, Template or Toolkit, Webinar -
This website provides CMS quality improvement (QI) technical assistance resources to help states improve tobacco cessation services for people in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs. Resources include a “Getting Started in QI” package with a video and guides to measurement and starting a project, state stories demonstrating successful strategies to improve tobacco cessation, and QuitLine reimbursement options.
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Behavioral Health, Tobacco Use Treatment, Maternal and Perinatal Health, Prenatal Care, Primary Care Access and Preventative Care
Improving Asthma Control Quality Improvement Resources
Quality Measure Guidance, State experiences, Template or Toolkit, Webinar -
CMS offers quality improvement (QI) technical assistance to help states improve asthma control for people in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs. This technical assistance includes a “Getting Started in QI” package with a video and guides to measurement and starting a project. These resources also include webinars with state strategies, stories, and successes.
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Medication Management, Asthma And/or COPD
California Adult Medicaid Quality Grant Program
State experiences -
Presents two quality improvement projects that California implemented through the Adult Medicaid Quality Grant. The two projects focused on improving comprehensive diabetes care by increasing hemoglobin A1c Testing Rates and improving maternal health outcomes by improving postpartum care. The projects had a specific focus on improving health outcomes for African Americans. Results, challenges, staff capacity, data collection and analytics, and promising practices described, Comprehensive Diabetes Care: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9.0%) (HPC-AD), Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Postpartum Care (PPC-AD).
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Maternal and Perinatal Health, Postpartum Care, Care of Acute and Chronic Conditions, Diabetes
Materials from the Postpartum Care Action Learning Series (2013-2014)
Data and Statistics, Fact Sheet or TA Briefs, Issue Brief, Quality Measure Guidance, Webinar -
Series to build Medicaid/CHIP capacity for quality improvement (QI) by providing voluntary training and support for teams that want to get started or continue implementing a maternal and infant health project. Teams were guided in implementing QI projects that were designed to start producing results within a ten-month timeframe, PC-01: Elective Delivery (PC01-AD), PC-02: Cesarean Birth (PC02-CH), Live Births Weighing Less Than 2,500 Grams (LBW-CH), Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Timeliness of Prenatal Care (PPC-CH), Prenatal and Postpartum Care: Postpartum Care (PPC-AD), Well-Child Visits in the First 15 Months of Life (W15-CH).
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Maternal and Perinatal Health, Birth Outcomes, Contraceptive Care, Delivery Outcomes, Postpartum Care, Prenatal Care, Primary Care Access and Preventative Care, Adult Screenings, Childhood Screenings, Well-Child Visits, Screenings and Follow-Up, Tobacco Use Treatment, Care of Acute and Chronic Conditions, Diabetes, HIV Care, Hospitalizations and Readmissions
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